Saturday, March 21, 2009

today i volunteered at the chuckanut 50km as i have many times now. krissy and her crew, including her mom peggy put on a great race with an awesome vibe. this year was once again stacked with top notch talent, but the canadian montrail team crushed it! canadaaaaa!! (i'm waving my fist in the air right now). montrail canada team member aaron heidt won the mens race by a large margin with greg crowthler in 2nd and hal koerner 3rd. montrail canada team member elli greenwood who also won the orcas island 50km took the woman's race handily.

"the crew" - porsha, krissy and peg (oh and dagan who is not pictured)

gary - as always it was great to see and hang out with you. you have to come down and visit more often.

kurt your a machine!! congrats on your first 50km. so sweet.. oh and finishing with the red sox had - priceless.

ellie you are incredible. hopefully i can come up there and train with you crazy canucks soon. i find out wed my foots fate.

crowther - you got second! you can obviously "handle the singletrack". i saw you come through the aid station, gary and i were in the car that almost hit you!! sorry bout that but gary was driving and he's from canada so, ya know, i think they drive on the other side of the road or something. anyway awesome race. i love singletrack but i still would have been light years behind you. solid effort.

Fun video Matt. To set the record straight what I really meant with respect to single track and Crowther is the single track was the only reason I beat him - and I am sure if he had a few more kms of the interurban trail the result would have been different. He went out and finished in blazing times - the fact that he has more than 17 minutes on me in a road marathon goes to show you what a beast he is.

About Matt Hart

I'm an ultra distance athlete who incessantly seeks out backcountry adventure. I'm an UltraRunner by trade, but I'm a multisport athlete at heart. Ski mountaineering in the winter, trail running and cycling in the summer. After 10 years in Seattle I moved to Salt Lake City because the Wasatch Mtns are simply amazing. I'm from New Hampshire originally, where I learned to "Live Free or Die". In December of 2005 I decided my desk job at Microsoft was in fact death... so i quit. I've been gettin' after it in the backcountry full time ever since. I coach, train and write the Ask the Coach column in TrailRunner Magazine